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 * Copyright 2006 Google Inc.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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 * 
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package com.google.gwt.xml.client;
/*
 * This is an immutable object because Safari
 * does not support mutable attribute maps.
 */

/**
 * Represents a string-to-node map, used in <code>getAttributes</code>.  
 */
public interface NamedNodeMap  {
  /**
    * This method gets the item having the given name
    * 
    * @param name - the name used to look up the item
    * @return the item retrieved 
    */  
  public Node getNamedItem(String name);
  
    /**
     * This method gets the item at the index position.
     * 
     * @param index - the index to retrieve the item from
     * @return the item retrieved
     */
  public Node item(int index);
  
  /**
   * Returns the number of items in this <code>NamedNodeMap</code>.
   * 
   * @return the number of items in this <code>NamedNodeMap</code>
   */  
  public int getLength();
  

}